Question

I have developed a contact form which incorporates CI form validation, email helper and class. When the user sends the information the client will receive a HTML email with this information. I have already created a separate view with the HTML table structure and this is built through a string in the controller [code below]. Is there any way of passing what the user has sent into this HTML form? For example in my email I have:

-You have received an email from $name<br>
-Message $message<br>
-You can reply to them at $email

It would be great if someone could guide me. I have included important snippets of code as a guide.

View:

<h1>Contact</h1>
<div id="contact">
<?php

    echo $message;
    echo validation_errors();

    echo form_open('contact/send_email');

    //Name field
    echo form_label('Name: ', 'name');
        $data = array (
            'name' => 'name',
            'id' => 'name',
            'value' => set_value('name')
        );
    echo form_input($data);

    echo form_submit('submit', 'Send');

    echo form_close();

Controller:

At the top of this code is the form validation and if else statements, and this is what happens when it has passed validation checks:

}else{
    $data['message'] = 'The email has successfully been sent';

    $html_email = $this->load->view('html_email', $data, true);

    //load the email class
    $this->load->library('email');

    $this->email->from(set_value('email'), set_value('name'));
    $this->email->to('[e-mail]');
    $this->email->subject('Message from Website');
    $this->email->message($html_email);

    $this->email->send();

    //if error from library will send us metadata
    echo $this->email->print_debugger();

    $data['page_title'] = 'Contact';
    $data['content'] = 'contact';   
    $this->load->view('template', $data);
}

Answer 1

Doing things the CodeIgniter way you should use $this->input->post('name') instead of $_POST['name']

To get the data to your view just add

$data['name'] = $this->input->post('name');

Before you load your view. This will allow you to print the $name variable in the view as in your initial statement. I.e. in the view:

You have a message from <?=$name?>

In the controller I would also change set_value('name') for $this->input->post('name').